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6/2/26-SC BookGal & Friends Sits Down with Award-Winning Gullah Poet and Author Yvette R. Murray · DA CREW Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the Sci Book gall In Friends Chat. We're
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  Speaker 1: gonna be talking about the latest and book reviews, author interviews,
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  Speaker 1: and life. Come on in and join us. We're ready,
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  Speaker 1: are you? Hey? Everyone? This is your girl sci Book
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  Speaker 1: out A four three and this is another Tuesday night.
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  Speaker 1: So I always ask, how are you okay? Okay, tonight's show,
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  Speaker 1: y'all know I always say every show was special to me,
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  Speaker 1: but this one is extra extra special. Okay. This author
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  Speaker 1: is the mother of one of my first library babies. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: So I have been working at my job this year,
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  Speaker 1: twenty one years. Somebody told me on day one that
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  Speaker 1: I still be working at this place for twenty one years.
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  Speaker 1: I will tell them you are a liar, Okay, But
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  Speaker 1: I want to say it's like fourteen fifteen years ago,
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  Speaker 1: her daughter was coming in a library and can we
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  Speaker 1: stay working on the last nerve? But I had just
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  Speaker 1: gotten a promotion to teen services, so their job was
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  Speaker 1: supposed to get on my last gary. But today, of
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  Speaker 1: all games you guys have, I've heard the author reach
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  Speaker 1: out and say, you know my daughter such or such.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, hold up, what do you mean my daughter?
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  Speaker 1: And she told me what it And I'm sitting at
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  Speaker 1: my desk at work in the public boohooin teends because
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  Speaker 1: it's like I've been here this long and that's my
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  Speaker 1: first set of library babies. And you know the teenage drama.
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  Speaker 1: This is when teens had their teenage drama and their
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  Speaker 1: respected adults. The ones nowadays that a whole different ball game.
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  Speaker 1: But this was a group of teens that I had done.
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  Speaker 1: And to see this young lady flourished the way she has,
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  Speaker 1: I know it has to have been because her mom. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: and it is such an honor to be able to
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  Speaker 1: have her mother on my show. And I'm gonna tell
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  Speaker 1: y'all someplace else. She's gonna be in about two weeks.
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  Speaker 1: But all that to say, let's bring up off the
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  Speaker 1: be r Murray. Welcome girlie. Hello, so good to be
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  Speaker 1: here on this day. This is a special day. Congratulations
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  Speaker 1: to you. Thank you. I wish I had your number
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  Speaker 1: back in the day so I could tell you all
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  Speaker 1: the stuff that she used to do. This is an
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  Speaker 1: what I'd be calling you every day. Hey, when you
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  Speaker 1: have for dinner, let me tell you what she did today.
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  Speaker 1: But she was she was very outspoken. She stood up
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  Speaker 1: her yeah, and every time I say something, you guys,
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  Speaker 1: this girl had to come back and all I could
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  Speaker 1: do is look at her like all right, yo. But
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  Speaker 1: they made my time period as teen services m just remarkable.
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  Speaker 1: And like I said, congratulations to you raising such a
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  Speaker 1: beautiful daughter. Thank you so much, and congratulations back at
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  Speaker 1: you because you had a part in it too. Takes
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  Speaker 1: a village. Hey, you know, mss ma'am, I still told
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  Speaker 1: you about two black eyes. I just want you to
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  Speaker 1: know that I catch you in the street is on.
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  Speaker 1: It's on today. Welcome to sc Buock Yards and friends.
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  Speaker 1: And also you guys. Another reason why this show is special,
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  Speaker 1: it's because this is our culture, the Gallachi. But ma'am,
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  Speaker 1: we ain't gonna go cha fa. Yeah. First we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: have author Murray introduce herself, So tell us a little
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  Speaker 1: bit about yourself. My name is Yvette R. Murray and
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  Speaker 1: I am Gallage chie toute bone, as they say, four
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  Speaker 1: generations deep here in Charleston. I grew up downtown on
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  Speaker 1: the west side and rapping that west side. Oh up,
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  Speaker 1: time out, time out? What part of downtown west side
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  Speaker 1: to see we don't need no more connections? What part
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  Speaker 1: of downtown west Side I grew up on Line Street
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  Speaker 1: between Rutlands and Coming. Listen, listen, sell me two thirty
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  Speaker 1: one f Wine Street, you go, okay, and thirty three
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  Speaker 1: Cleveland Street, Hampton. That's it, that's me. So you mean
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  Speaker 1: we're like not knowing that in twenty twenty six we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna be right here with each other. That's right, right,
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  Speaker 1: that's right. It connects, it all connects. This is y'all.
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  Speaker 1: This is mad crazy, Okay. I'm like downtown is with something.
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  Speaker 1: Oh the force, okay, Okay, tell us a little bit
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  Speaker 1: more about yourself. I just had an interrupt I saw it.
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  Speaker 1: Oh no, that's okay, that's okay. I am a writer.
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  Speaker 1: I have a full time business as well, but moving
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  Speaker 1: into the writing being full time because there are so
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  Speaker 1: many stories, so many stories that we have that need
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  Speaker 1: to be told. So yeah, we just got to put
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  Speaker 1: them on paper. Gotta tell it, got to tell it.
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  Speaker 1: And that's that's why I'm so embodied into your book
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  Speaker 1: because I have seen books about the Gulageechee culture, but
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  Speaker 1: it's been a while back, and I think, yes, yours
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  Speaker 1: been the latest that I've seen. What made you want
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  Speaker 1: to tell the Gallaghichi story? It's how they how they
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  Speaker 1: treat us, you know, how they treat the culture, how
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  Speaker 1: they look at the culture, how they try to erase
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  Speaker 1: the culture and absorb it into their behaviors. And I
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  Speaker 1: wanted to join. There are so many organizations and people
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  Speaker 1: here and historians that are writing their own books, having
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  Speaker 1: tours of locations uplifting the Gallaghchi culture, and I wanted
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  Speaker 1: to get in my lane and do my part of
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  Speaker 1: uplifting it as well. So my part was speaking to
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  Speaker 1: the littles, the children. That's one thing that's missing is
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  Speaker 1: I see a lot of the talk about the Galla culture,
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  Speaker 1: but we're not talking to our kids. And in order
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  Speaker 1: for us to pass on the culture, we need to
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  Speaker 1: tell them about the culture. That's right. And I feel
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  Speaker 1: that we're like when it comes to this conversation and
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  Speaker 1: our kids, we're like two ships passing in the night.
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  Speaker 1: Do you feel that it was hard to write this
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  Speaker 1: book or with the rather easy to write it? Like,
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  Speaker 1: what was your take when you were writing this? It
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  Speaker 1: was easy to write. My publisher is an educational publisher,
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  Speaker 1: so they wanted it breaks down the five senses for
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  Speaker 1: children with things that they see all the time. So
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  Speaker 1: it was easy to write the part of Grandma's garden
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  Speaker 1: is literally my mother's garden. I took the plants, that
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  Speaker 1: that's what it was. It was the palmetto trees in
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  Speaker 1: the street, the bricks, the red bricks in so many
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  Speaker 1: buildings that we see. It was everything about us and
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  Speaker 1: even some things that growing up downtown might not be
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  Speaker 1: so familiar. But you know, it's ours, like the cowboys.
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  Speaker 1: The cowboys are in there too, our cowboys, our local cowboys.
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  Speaker 1: They're and there too. It belongs, it's us and it
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  Speaker 1: needs to be uplifted and spoken about and put in
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  Speaker 1: its proper place. The origin of the word cowboys is amazing.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody look it up please, I'm telling you. The origin
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  Speaker 1: of the word and how it came about the truth
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  Speaker 1: just needs to be uncovered in every way we can
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  Speaker 1: possibly uncover it. And you did it in the language
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  Speaker 1: for our young kids. Yes, it's weird that you know
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  Speaker 1: me born and raised downtown Charleston. Mm hmm, and when
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  Speaker 1: I go to downtown Charleston now, it is nothing that
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  Speaker 1: I remember when I was younger, when I would take
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  Speaker 1: because my daughter is a student from downtown MSA. Okay, yeah, graduations,
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  Speaker 1: baby girling, your graduation. But y'all will talk about that later.
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  Speaker 1: Go check my Facebook. You see all the pictures. So
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  Speaker 1: when I was I was downtown with her and we
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  Speaker 1: were doing rehearsals and stuff. We would leave and we
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  Speaker 1: will be waiting on our uber, or we would go
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  Speaker 1: to my aunt who lived right across the street, and
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  Speaker 1: I will be telling her, Oh, this is where this
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  Speaker 1: is and this is where that was. She can't visualize, absolutely,
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  Speaker 1: she cannot visualize it. Like when I told us said, oh,
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  Speaker 1: let's go get a chili bit. What's a chili beer?
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  Speaker 1: What's a chili beer? And you know, she told me, oh,
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  Speaker 1: that's just coolid with icy. You know I should chop
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  Speaker 1: you in your eyes. I believe those chili bears played
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  Speaker 1: paid plenty electric bills, okay, because you know if you
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  Speaker 1: went one time, about three hours later you were going again.
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  Speaker 1: And then don't let it be a cookout, because everybody
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  Speaker 1: going across the street every day it was a cherry.
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  Speaker 1: Ain't got no more red. I love the fact that
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  Speaker 1: you decided to put this in a book for our
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  Speaker 1: young kids about the culture. What is the most important
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  Speaker 1: part of the culture that you feel that could be
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  Speaker 1: found in this book. You can only choose one community. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: community and family. The things that I talk about are
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  Speaker 1: very important. The trees, the plants, the water, all of
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  Speaker 1: that is very important. But that love of community and
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  Speaker 1: family goes through all of the sections, and that's the
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  Speaker 1: most important part. That's what we don't have anymore. I
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  Speaker 1: call our neighborhoods ecosystem urban forest, because everything we needed
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  Speaker 1: was there. The lady that did your hair, the chili
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  Speaker 1: bear man, the flush man he coming by, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the gardner, the yagman as they call it. He's there.
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  Speaker 1: Everything you need, somebody to fix your car, everything you
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  Speaker 1: need was in that neighborhood. And our children are really
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  Speaker 1: not going to get to experience that. I try to
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  Speaker 1: make it wherever I go, but it's not the same.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody took care, everybody. The lady next daugh to me,
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  Speaker 1: she made quilts. Everything you needed was in that neighborhood.
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  Speaker 1: Everything that you could possibly need was there, and we
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  Speaker 1: were sharing. We were sharing and giving and telling each other, Oh,
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  Speaker 1: get your hand fixed. Down the streets. She's right there,
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  Speaker 1: and they were part of the community. That's so important.
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  Speaker 1: That raised us, each and every one of us, and
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  Speaker 1: our children not going to quite get that same thing. Anymore.
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  Speaker 1: We have to take them. If we have it somewhere,
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  Speaker 1: we have to take them to it So true, because
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  Speaker 1: I remember during Shugo when the storm I went through,
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  Speaker 1: it was just like another day in the neighborhood, just
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  Speaker 1: that the lights were off because we went down the
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  Speaker 1: street Tom's Boosey who had the gas sold to cook
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  Speaker 1: our food. And then we'll walk away back up the
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  Speaker 1: street and nice warm and piping hot. But then that's right,
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  Speaker 1: we will take our water down the street to Bootsey.
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  Speaker 1: From Bootsy can have some water stuff to drink. I
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  Speaker 1: remember there was a convenience store across the street that man,
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  Speaker 1: mister Brockington. I don't know if you remember Brockington. Now
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  Speaker 1: brockingte what mister Brocklen came after you going to open
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  Speaker 1: up the store, and I'll never forget the National garbage
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  Speaker 1: right there with him, and they said why are you
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  Speaker 1: doing this? He said, because this is my community. Because
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  Speaker 1: if it wasn't for them, I wouldn't have the store
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  Speaker 1: that I had. So what you you're saying, it's absolutely correct.
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  Speaker 1: And I feel that the the the African American culture
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  Speaker 1: is so displaced because the family is displaced. And we're
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  Speaker 1: not talking only about blood relatives. You guys, we're talking
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  Speaker 1: about everybody who lived on that street, you know, everybody
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  Speaker 1: who loves streets in front of everybody who lives ConA.
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  Speaker 1: We're going around the coner. We're going We're going around
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  Speaker 1: the corner around there to go get that fish. You
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  Speaker 1: want to get fish bush, don't you know? Should we
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  Speaker 1: say fush? So we're going to bring up your book cover, y'all.
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  Speaker 1: This is the most beautiful cover I've ever seen. And
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  Speaker 1: I want to tell you tell us a little bit
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  Speaker 1: about your vision for your book. As you can see
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  Speaker 1: on the cover, the celebration, the joy of the girl character.
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  Speaker 1: But water and how water is so important to us
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  Speaker 1: as a people, as destroyer and savior at the same time,
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  Speaker 1: we made a living from it. Some of our ancestors
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  Speaker 1: refused to be enslaved and jumped to their deaths in it.
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  Speaker 1: But water is and was everything to us. And you
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  Speaker 1: see all the colors. My illustrator, I was blessed with
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  Speaker 1: a wonderful illustrator. Her name's Tanya Engel. She's from Texas,
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  Speaker 1: and she used oils to cate the images. After she
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  Speaker 1: did the sketches, she used oil and that's what they
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  Speaker 1: used to create from which makes the colors so vibrant
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  Speaker 1: and lush. And I really appreciate her for that. And
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  Speaker 1: you guys are looking at If you look at this cover,
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  Speaker 1: you can see everything that she is saying, and it's
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  Speaker 1: just that it's like she's welcoming, the welcoming the DELI
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  Speaker 1: get you into her. That that's the vibe that I'm getting. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: I love it, y'all love it. I love book covers
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  Speaker 1: like this. This this to be what we call a
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  Speaker 1: face out book. And what do we mean by face
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  Speaker 1: out book is we will put this book on the shelf,
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  Speaker 1: the face out to our readers so that they can
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  Speaker 1: grab it for those who are those who love the
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  Speaker 1: vibrancy of the colors and everything. If you can dedicate
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  Speaker 1: this book to any part of your of your Gullah
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  Speaker 1: Geechee heritage lifestyle, what part would it be. I think
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  Speaker 1: it would be the community gathering, us gathering, families gathering.
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  Speaker 1: I think it would be that because in that those moments,
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  Speaker 1: those Juneteenth celebrations, those thanksgivings, those Christmas, in that you
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  Speaker 1: have everything, you got, the elders, you have, the families,
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  Speaker 1: they are together, and those moments can be so special,
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  Speaker 1: life changing so jokey, you know, you know how it
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  Speaker 1: is when we get together for me. So but it's
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  Speaker 1: it's all of that in one. It's all of our
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  Speaker 1: experiences as a culture in one. And I just love
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  Speaker 1: the fact that when people have gone to Africa, they
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  Speaker 1: gather and they move and they're gatherings the same way
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  Speaker 1: we do. Now, what does that say? What does that say?
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  Speaker 1: That's connection right there, thousands of miles away, But we
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  Speaker 1: do the same thing, we behave the same way, and
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  Speaker 1: that's amazing. So I just love our gathering. I love
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  Speaker 1: us checking on Auntie, I love us going by Grandma,
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  Speaker 1: taking the kids by. I just love that we keep
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  Speaker 1: that going. So I would say it's that aspect of
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  Speaker 1: what we do and how we do. You guys, back
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  Speaker 1: in the day, we didn't have to have a holiday
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  Speaker 1: or anything. We would get to get on weekends for
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  Speaker 1: no reason. You know what I'm saying. I can remember
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  Speaker 1: when in my family. We still do it now, but
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  Speaker 1: just not as much. But you would have her to say,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I'm just about to put some stuff on
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  Speaker 1: the grill, or I'm about to get some crabs. Lord yo,
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  Speaker 1: my mom my, stay my mom ate crabs so much
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  Speaker 1: to the fact that I hated crass. What there is
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  Speaker 1: a video when my mother was living, she had all
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  Speaker 1: her grands and they all sat down. So imagine my
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  Speaker 1: daughter at the time, and now you might've been about
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  Speaker 1: five six, sitting up there, got call and her tea
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  Speaker 1: and I'm looking at you, girl, you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: And then as a community we would say, and it's
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  Speaker 1: even shown in New Orleans. You guys, if you look
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  Speaker 1: at this frog and you look at the first five
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  Speaker 1: minutes at the Tiana makes the the gumbo, what we
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  Speaker 1: do in the Golukichi culture, just like them, because that's
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  Speaker 1: also them. Somebody got the corn bread, somebody got this,
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  Speaker 1: somebody got that, and we will all come together as
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  Speaker 1: a community. That's right, That's right. I really wish we
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  Speaker 1: could go back there. That's one of the things I
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  Speaker 1: really wish that the community can get back together. Absolutely,
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  Speaker 1: like you said, for no reason, for no reason. We
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  Speaker 1: don't need a holiday, just a day just because we ye,
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  Speaker 1: just because we're sitting outside in the sun and is
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  Speaker 1: hout you know what I'm saying. That's it. Yes, I
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  Speaker 1: remember was the fire department turning on the water holes
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  Speaker 1: By the time we run up in that water about
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  Speaker 1: four five times. By the time we get back to
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  Speaker 1: the house, everybody who lived on the project would be
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  Speaker 1: at my grandma's house, Miss Mina and be getting all
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  Speaker 1: and we all eating our little chili beers, our snacks,
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  Speaker 1: our penny candy. You couldn't tell us we ain't had
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  Speaker 1: a good summer. You couldn't tell us we didn't have
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  Speaker 1: a good summer, perfect, simple, beautiful, joyful. And we didn't
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  Speaker 1: need no electronics. We didn't have any cell phones. We
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  Speaker 1: saw the street lights and you had to be on
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  Speaker 1: the porch or some rad you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: And there was always somebody who had their music so
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  Speaker 1: loud that their door will be closed, but you can
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  Speaker 1: hear everything rest some piece of people. But you know
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  Speaker 1: that's right, that's what it was. We have this, We
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  Speaker 1: have this time in my show. We call it the
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  Speaker 1: Fun Questions. Okay, y'all, She said, okay, like she was
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  Speaker 1: ready for us, and we'll see how ready she is. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: So okay, Lifetime said, we love your book. We love it.
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  Speaker 1: We want to make this until a children's TV series.
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  Speaker 1: What shall actor would play the main character in your book? Oh?
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  Speaker 1: I think I might have to let my granddaughter do
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  Speaker 1: it because she is a pure ham she should really
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  Speaker 1: do it. And if you notice in the section, it's
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  Speaker 1: girl boy girl, boy girl, so it's mostly girls, which
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  Speaker 1: was intentional, but it's mostly girls. I had to give
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  Speaker 1: them their voice and let them use their voice. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I would have to say that pastor present. Well, let's
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  Speaker 1: do past. Okay, all right, let's get a little Raven
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  Speaker 1: Simon in there, because she was a pickle when she
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  Speaker 1: was younger. We'll get her in there, Okay, and daughter
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  Speaker 1: and hmmm, let's see who else now I'm about I'm up.
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  Speaker 1: I can tell you who I remember. Okay, I think
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  Speaker 1: her name was Tasha, but I don't know how show
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  Speaker 1: I'm yeah, yes, oh, yes, I think her name was Tosh. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: We gotta get one of them in there too, yes.
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  Speaker 1: And then they had some great kids on Sesame Street too,
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  Speaker 1: they did. I was the Sesame Street up until who
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  Speaker 1: was it? Who was the the African American dude's the way?
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  Speaker 1: I think that kind of stayed away from all yea,
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  Speaker 1: And that's when they had a great vibe in the beginning,
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  Speaker 1: do you know what I mean? It was like it
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  Speaker 1: was like a groovy seventies vibe. Yes, New York style,
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  Speaker 1: because I remember in the beginning they used to film
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  Speaker 1: in New York on the streets, and that was a
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: very interesting vibe that they had, and they used to
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: use the sounds of the street because I still remember,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to the so for a loaf of bread,
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: a container milk, and a stick of butter. She just
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: kept on saying that as she walked to the store
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: over and over. Ya. Okay, that was interesting. It was
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: very interesting. I like it. So we have those three
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: female characters. Now you know the story and the one
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: thing about the community. We have grandma and grandpa. Yeah,
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: we got mom and dad. Who was something about grandma
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: and grandpa. If you can cast two individuals, one female,
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: one male to be a grandma and grandpa and the story,
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: who would you choose? Rubidi and Nuzzie Davis girls she
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: went in? Did she really had the true black love?
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  Speaker 1: What you know about? What I know? I know? I'm
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: telling you, Yes, they could be because there's a part
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: where the grandfather is hugging the child and I could
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: just see him doing it. Yes, yes, I love that
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: you write this down from when it happens. It whoa
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: it whoa? Because I could go Bill Cosby, but I
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: can't go there right now. So yeah, yeah, but yeah,
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: yeah yeah, Denzel seventy, he might could, he might could
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  Speaker 1: do it. You know, I don't know if I can
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: afford Denzel, but hey, yeah, if you can give a
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: soundtrack one song to describe your whole book, what song
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: will it be? And why? Hm hm t I let
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: them know, just the title, let them know, let them know,
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: that's the sum anthem, let them know, let me find out. Yeah,
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: you're her mom. I can see it now and I
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: can hear her. Oh my god. Well, before we close
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: out the show, we need to get the run down.
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: Tell us where we can follow you, where we can
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: get your books, any events you have coming out? Won't
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: you give us the rundown? Okay? Well, the book is
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: available little literally everywhere, on all everywhere. It's you can
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: get it on Amazon, you can get it Bused in Books,
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: you can get it Barnes and Noble Bookshop dot org.
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: Anywhere you can get it. And I saw it the
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: other day on Mahogany books dot com. So the book
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: is available everywhere. And of course I have an inventory too,
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: and be happy to mail them out, so feel free
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: to reach out. I will be at the Herd Library
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: on June the thirteenth from to the four. It's gonna
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: be an author talk. We're gonna chat some I got
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: some coloring pages for the littles and some crayons. I
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: got crayons too, and we're gonna talk and we're gonna read,
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: and I'm gonna hear what the people have to say.
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna give them an opportunity to speak back. And
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: then we're gonna be celebrating Juneteenth on the twentieth in
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: Mount Pleasant. It's their June teenth celebration at the C. A. G. E. Property.
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: I believe you got the address on there. And we're
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: gonna be there from two until six. It's gonna be
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: a very good time. We're gonna talk about Juneteenth, we're
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: gonna talk about being Gulla Geechee and we're gonna have
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: a good time. So those that's what's the next thing's
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: coming up in June. So yeah, you guys, she's gonna
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: be a Marl Library. I'm so excited. I'm so excited,
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: and we're gonna have off the top. It's gonna be
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: a little part two of this right here. But I'm
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: gonna be very professional. I have to be not high professional.
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: I don't know you know what I'm saying, but I
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: am going today so excited to be I'm being a
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: good girl. My favorite library. You know, I want to
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: thank you for being with us, missus Murray, you guys,
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: thank you to be awesome. Just make sure you join
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: us that day. Okay, you know I got you, girly.
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: I'm just so excited that we can do this absolutely
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: absolutely due downtown girls, Downtown. I mean, who would have
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: ever thought, I mean I would have never thought like
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: we would be like literally it blows my mind to
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: to literally think that I would be here, you would
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: be here, that's right, walking past each other, that's right.
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: And now all the connection you know when when things
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: are supposed to happen, godline, come on, come on. He
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: just makes sure he's like, oh, y'all think y'all gonna
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: knock know each other? Hold on, boom, there you go, boom,
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: go do what I told you to do, Do what
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: you're meant to do. Both of you guys. That's right.
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: We'll keep your purpose, yes too, and there where we are,
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: that's right. This is crazy. I love it. Thank you
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: for being with me off the murray, thank you, thank
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: you for having me, and I will see you soon,
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: see me soon. Yes, So you guys always know that
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: lately I've been ending this show on a monologue. I
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: kind of like that. But here's something serious again, big
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: upstead of say to South Carolina who say we ain't
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: trying to do that every districting thing. But now you guys,
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: it's time to put your vote to vote. Okay, it's
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: time to put your foot to the ground. Next week
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: Tuesday is the primaries. Do we actually know what a
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: primary is? I think a lot of people don't, So
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: let me take a moment to explain to you what
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: a primary is. So primary's is you got all these
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: people in the box, but you gotta choose a leader,
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: and then those two leaders will go against each other
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: to be the ultimate winner. Okay. So now it's time
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: for you to go to your poll and vote. Okay.
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: And then, because there's so many people running in the
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: race in South Carolina, we're gonna have a runoff. So
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: two weeks from now we're gonna do it all over again. Okay,
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: But this is the point where you let your voice
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: be heard. The same way that me and author Marray
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: were talking about downtown Charleston. Do you not know that
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: now a lot of people who grew up where we
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: are are being displaced. Do you not know that the
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: low income in Charleston, South Carolina, where I was born
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: and raised, is sixty eight thousand dollars. That's low income. Yo.
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: There are people who've been working for the state government,
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: county government, city government that does not make anywhere near
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: that amount. A lot of people can't even live with
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: their work. And Charleston we have people commuting thirty forty
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: five maybe an hour away just to get that job,
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: and then they have to go back home where you're
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: spending maybe twenty five percent of your paycheck on gas,
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: maybe another sixty percent on rent because rent is ridiculous
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: in Charleston, South Carolina. But then we have all these
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: people rent, But y'all the ones ain't voting. So remember,
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: anything that has to change from the top have to
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: start from the bottom. So this is your chance to
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: make that change. So next week Tuesday, seven am to
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: seven pm. Believe you, me and none of y'all working
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: a twelve hours ship. That's from seven to seven I
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: doubt it so the same way you can stop and
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: get your crab ball, the same way you can stop
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: and go get your Starbucks as the same where you
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: could take five to ten minutes to vote. Let your
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: voice be heard, if not for you, for the people
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: we got to coming behind us. We have to make
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: the changes now. Because if you are not trying to
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: make the change now, please don't come to the come
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: to where I work. Please don't catch me in the
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: street and start complaining that I'm gonna ask you did
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: you vote. I'm gonna be the first one to ask you.
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: Did you vote? Do you have something to say about it?
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: Did you get your ID up to date? Because you know,
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: on a lot of states you gotta have to. I
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: had to up to date the vote. So did you
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: do that? So remember next week Tuesday all across America.
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, you guys. I got like different things going on,
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: So I apologize. Next week Tuesday across America is the primaries.
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: Go vote, okay now, Also, you guys, this Saturday, I'm
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: going to be with author Rainy Perry and author Winsdon
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: and we're gonna be having a writer's workshop. I know,
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: y'all saying Patricia not an author, So I'm gonna give
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: you some pointers from the reader's standpoint of view. I'm
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: gonna talk to you about publicity invisibility because you've already
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: writen the book. So what next. You just can't write
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: the book and expect people to buy it because you
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: wrote it out of publicity. You gotta have word of mouth,
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: You got to talk about your book. You got all
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: these different areas. And then I'm also going to talk
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: to you about having my podcast for four years, how
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: overcome my fear with that, and also how working along
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: with aspiring off the magazine have given independent authors like
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: yourself a chance to get your book out. Okay, So
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: that is this coming Saturday, June sixth at eleven thirty
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: at Turning Pages Bookshop. Okay, you want to register, look
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: right down there at the bottom register and I will
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: see you there again. You guys, I would like to
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: think off the hurry for me one years working from
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: where I work, making those connections in my little library,
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: well big library baby. Right now it just feels so blessed.
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: So you guys remember Tuesday. Next week, Tuesday, go vote. Okay,
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna have my stick on on and I'm gonna
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: show you guys. So another night in the book, another
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: Tuesday night. Remember you guys, there's no such thing as
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: an old book because not everybody has read every book.